Famous quotes containing the words river and/or bottom:
“Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
Cole: Lord almighty.
Mississippi: Yeah, well, that’s why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred,
And I myself see not the bottom of it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)